Picton Pips. Alderman Graham has resigned from the Council. . - We have to hold over the Council report until next week. Big bush fires have been the order in the district during the past week. . In the local Protestant Churches prayers f-Jf the miich-neoded rain were; offered last Wednesday. Let us hope that t'he prayers will be speedily answered. Mr. A. Trittou, of the local saw mills* had the? misfortune to have the tbpB olj three iingwscut off on Mohday/t ''J. -'..;. .'yjjjie Ifariwsrs' and .Bairytaun Jiav« notified aappliw-s that, the pVice' ot - milk' will 'lie l'Od. after Sniiilay last. This is a doilge, no don1.it, to foretell I the suppliers in getting a Mgher price. , Mr. R. H. Antill, as chairman of thu Farmers and Dairymen's Milk Co., is in favor of giving dairymen Is. per gallon for their milk in order to tide them ovor the present hard times and to recoup them for the cost of fodder. We are glad to see that the usual Eight-Hours picnic and sports will be held next mout...

f ^r,^fifr:Ji8fisS5#!H^S^j*.*c«?jli.--ii«*is A. NEW LBTTEB. -, I Lady Gregory sends to tbe grimes' (13tb August) a lojig-and hitherto un-J published letter, written byfealpr J»op^1 nleton, 53rd Uegiment^Vho iiad charge j of Napoleon's person'' at JSL Selena I from the time lie was 'first sent there «ll 1817. It Is dated 19tu April, 1817, j nnd was ?written to tbe Bight. Hon. Wil liam Gregory, at that time Under-Sec- ] retary for Ireland. Lady Gregory ob- ? serves : 'We still possess the lock of Napoleon's hair, and also a Cross- of the legion of Honor given by Napoleon to Major Poppleton.' EARLY DATS AT I/)NGW00D. 'When Buonaparte first arrived at Longwoody .writes Major Eoppleton, 'he rose «arly, mounted his horse re turned to breakfast about nine, after- J wards confined : himself to his room, ; but constantly complaining of tlie liu- 1 iiiiuity ot his residence— he said be was either in tbe clouds, fog, and rain; or under a burning sun. In the evening be saw most people wbo wishe...

THE KING AND MARIENBAD. A MONUMENT ERfeCTED. An interesting monument has just been erected in the park at Marienbad. just below the promenade, by the springs, to commemorate the meeting of the Austrian Emperor with King Edward at Mavicnbad three years ago. It con sists of two- massive unhewn boulders ol Dlurit stone, placed one upon . the other, on a block of worked grrey gran- j ite trom'the neighborhood. Into the face of the uppermost boulder have been '? let Ijronze medallions of ? the two omn archs. facing one another,' cast ? from .designs by Her r Gustav Ourschner, a sculptor of Vienna. ; ..- ;. i . The portrait -of the Klng:^ t or ;' which* his . igsJesty .-raw J^tfinEBjfcJ^ar'iiBfcbi-,^8 i-;. iBffoa; .^6u^^«i«l;itftki^:aikjaifl*6i| ^pipneri6ai J^8Usf^.6,^dOlS--',*h-e;^J verse;, side of :the'i;Mulder?belng:':-an^.-': scribed with the words, 'Erected by the ? Town of Marie.ibad/1907.J' -\ The combined weight ot the 'boulders is about eight tons. .To the rigrht and left runs a ...

WORLDS RECORD SHIP. The special correspondent of the 'Lokalanzelger,' now at Kiel, learns that during the recent regatta on the Lower Elbe negotiations took place between Lord Pirrie, chairman of Messrs Harland and Wolff, and tbe direction of tbe Hamburg-AmeriKa line, for the building of a new Transatlantic liner, which Is to be a foot longer and six Inches broarder than the largest of the Canard boats, and have a tonnage of nearly 50,000. 'Thus,' adds the cor respondent, 'Germany assures to faerself once more the possession of a world record ship. But It Is a pity that it must be ordered abroad. Let as bope that a German yard will be able to undertake tbe building of. tbe next ocean mam moth,' The actor must have .his living wage, and he must liave it as. a .professional j man. If the present system cannot give -\ It to him, the present system «nist ae ; alterel Why should he always be the first to suffer, the first to go to the wall? What actors want is «, fair working system that...

iMjmsmi^saia,, KING AND QUEEN ABOARD. RECORD SHOOTING. Mr Prank T. Bullen, special corres pondent of the ixmoon' 'Dally Mail,' writes as follows on . board H.M.S. Dreadnought on 5th August:— This Is a glorious day, for the Admiral of the Oceans proceeded in his turbine yacht, the Dreadnought, to sea at a low speed (for her) of fifteen knots down be tween the lines of the mightiest fleet tbe world has ever seen. He came on board precisely at eleven, accompanied by her Majesty the Queen, the Prince of Wales, Prince Edward, the small, bright boy who would certainly make his mark in any line of life; the Princess Victoria, and the Duke of Connaught Sir John Fisher, alert, debonair, and keen, as he always Is, preceded him, and pervaded the ship, showing amid his remembrance of everything that mattered no trace of the pride that he would be more than human if he did not feel at this splendid culmination of bis efforts to raise a Home Fleet that should be at once fully efficient, enormousl...

THE, PREDOMINANT SEX. Canon Horsier, in tils parish tnagn zlne, records that of the babies presen ted for baptism at St. Peter's, WM wortti, during the past month nine wore j boys and twenty-seven were 'little girls.' 'If this proportion became con stant,' the Canon goes on to remark, 'what chance would the mere male of i the future hare? As it Is, I have heard ; that it Is difficult for a man to get into j some local public-houses because they nre so full of women.' The names ot the -little girls' show a local preference for flowers— a. suggest! re fact baring regard to tbe gardenless character of Walworth-Vlolets, Roses, Lilies, May, Olive, Myrtle being among Hiem.— So write* the 'Westminster 33»serte.' The man who wins Is the one who does a little more than is expected of j him all along, and who can do a llrtlo more than be himself expects to do tit . the last— 'Baker's Magazine.' i

AUSTRALIAN POLICEMAN. -. ? -.; .??-.?'.? -. -9 INHERITS VAST ENGLISH ESTATES. Prom Australian policeman to English county magnate Is the history 1° brief of Mr Walter Ellison Lenthall, J.P., o! Boar'a Hill, near Oxford. By the death of a relative Mr Lenthall has just in herited great estates, the value of which is stated to be many thousand pounds a year. The family of Lenthall has been seat ed for centuries In Oxfordshire, and Berkshire, and has had representatives prominent in the councils of the country since the days of tbe Battle of Agin court. Far and away the most notable Len thah in history Is he who was Speaker of the House of Commons at ihe , Par liamentary crisis and Civil War, who rendered the famous answer to Chartes I. when he illegally demanded the deliv erance of the five members. By virtue of his position as bead of the victorious body In the struggle for supremacy, Speaker Lenthall was in some, respects the most powerful personage in England at the time, not even e...

Mr. W. Daniels, Temora, N.S.W., says : — 'Some six months ago I waa very ill for nearly a week with colic pains, suffering great agony. Speaking to Mr. Bigney, one of the local chemists, about it, he said he had a good remedy for such complaints. Leaving me for a few minutes he returned with a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera, and Diarrhoea K«medy. After the first dose' I felt relieved, and in less than 24 hours was completely cured. My daughter has also during the last few months been similarly attacked, but a dose of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera, and Diarrhoea Remedy soon- put her right. I am now never without it in the house, and make a point of recommending it. to my friends.' Eor sale by C. H. Piokard, Pioton and Thirlmere.— (Advt). Silver Town, (Nofi) Golf Balls at W. Watson's, hairdresser, Argyle-etreet, Picton. -(Advt.) H. H. Doudney, OKKTIST, May be consulted on Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 9.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m., and Saturday Evenings from 7.30 p.m. to 9 p.m. ARGYLE-...

IN IJIE REIGN OF QUEEN 'MEUA.; * ? .When - tHS'- coroaatloB prtfeejnon started from Mullarkey'e tenements the morning of May-day, an uncrowned Queen high up In tbe fourth story, front, pressed her nose against the, window pane and wept to see. There was Lena Scbwarzkind, all in white, with an aureole of flaxen hair — Lena the plebian but victorious— marching ahead in sau sage-legged solidity. There were Mamie Sullivan and Rosa Salvatore, ladles In waiting, proud bearers ot royal Insignia —the gilt jagged crown, tbe veil's filmy lengths of mosquito netting. There fol lowed James Dannaher, first lord of the May-pole, uprearing his own deft device i of one flagstaff circled by a bicycle rim, Iricolored streamers dependent. There - filed the indiscriminate court, boasting white shoes and stockings of baseball caps, and rear-guarded by fat Mama Scbwarzkind and her lunch basket, the whole pageant, sweeping sumptuously, yet chastely, around the corner, to the strains of two mouth organs an...

GERMAN TRAIN DISASTER, rill MYSTERIOUS WRECKING OF -^§1 INTERNATIONAL, /ErxPRESKLiplj | On 7th August the corrcspondent^i^S the 'Dally Mall' wrote 'from Berlin* J|JiH | Germany was thrilled to-day wltB:th^^S news of a disastrous railawy accldefft^^^H the great route from Eydtkuhnen^^^^H Berlin. A Russian express on its wiy,-|||| to Berlin, shortly before reaSimgaj Gnesen, went off the trrack at half-past^ one in the morning. The two pnglii^^S the luggage van, and four corridor car^jS riages left the rails, the first engine be||i ing thrown lengthwise across the ti¥^^8 with its funnel burrowing bito:r|^^ ground. The second engine wa»£a}sea|!lj from the rails and hurled agai&amp;st '-B,2j first, while, the carriages were'; drh^S 'together with a force which^ujiigcd th^nj^f to collapse into each other iffo^so rnaijy--|| parts of an adjustable' telescope ^ TheIgS latest reports state that,eie^etfrners?iS^ were killed, among '? them ' al-^RusslS^ prince and Count KayserlSng, at 3?-ti...

[?] TRANSFERRED FROM ENGLAND TqHIw NEW ZEACAND. 18111 When- settlement began New ZejdanaSlSj farmers gave a hearty invitation to.the\|tl small birds of England to help in: thSSH great work of colonisation, sayg Mr SrHlg Drummona, writing in the 'Saturdajr4;^ Review.' Tbe colonists were in a ratherSsfl sad plight then, through plagues of cat- -sj erpmars wnicn threatenefl to make -Sg farming on1 anything like a large scale 'K Impossible. The gathering ,of the Insert*..;^; caused consternation. They advanced J?-v through the country in arnrif^^ievourSi? ing crops and' leaving fields as bare asi;wi if the seeds had not been sown. ~^Fi A telegram published in the leading^ 3 New Zealand papers about that tlmei'%: stated that the. morning and ev.enlnivS trains l.etween Waverlcy ard Nu cum ru, ?j In the Wanganul district, on the w^st 3j coast of the North Island, were bro ght '-*- to a standstill owing to countless thou-^ '5 sands of caterpillars being on the rails, s | which had to be swe...